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Christine So
Gray Iris VIII Cyanotype Monotype Print, Unframed, 24x18\"

2025

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$300
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£224.32
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€262
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CA$421.50
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A$426.90
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CHF 245.23
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MX$5,176.68
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NOK 2,844.65
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SEK 2,895.53
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DKK 1,958.71

About the Item

The pale gray-green of this monotype calls to mind the celadon glaze of Japanese pottery. Each was made using freshly-cut long-stemmed wild iris (iris douglasiana) that grow along the California coast. Their impossibly long stems bend with their own weight, creating beautiful arcs and lines in every composition. Although this looks like a screen print or woodcut, it is actually a form of 19th-century photography, a cyanotype. This pale blue-gray is a very difficult color to achieve with the cyanotype antique photographic process. The normal color of a cyanotype (blueprint) is dark blue and white. However, this slate gray and cream cyanotype was made by altering the ratio of two photo chemicals in the mix before brushing it on the paper. Every one of the artist's botanical cyanotypes is an entirely unique monotype as the freshly cut plants are laid in that one exact composition only once before they wilt. There is no copper plate; there is no ink or printing press. Unframed. Hand-printed on cotton watercolor paper with straight edges, not deckled edges. This iris print (Gray Iris VIII) is the exact same shade of gray/green as Gray Iris VII and a shade lighter than Gray Iris IV which is a bit darker. Sold separately here. If you would like both Gray Iris VII and VIII, purchase them together and save money in the "Foggy Iris Diptych" listing.

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